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Design and Engineering, As One(opens in new tab)

In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and ...

✉️ Content Hiatus(opens in new tab)

I've decided to go on a content hiatus. This will be my last dispatch for a while. I don't know how long I'll be gone. Why? Because I've been posting to an anonymous audience on the Internet almost every day ...

Mechanical sympathy(opens in new tab)

Weaver, seen from the Front, Vincent van Gogh, 1884 Something that’s been floating around in my head lately is the idea that I don’t know any truly good engineers who are also not good at at product design. Product design ...

Wheel Next + Packaging PEPs(opens in new tab)

When you pip install a package with compiled code, the wheel you get is built for CPU features from 2009. Want newer optimizations like AVX2? Your installer has no way to ask for them. GPU support? You're on your own ...

The Scroll Manifesto(opens in new tab)

Scroll inside the stage with the mouse wheel or with your finger. It is only a machine, but it already understands the gesture. Have fun! Posted by like comments share comments close share close Thank you for sharing. Your unpaid ...

A mathematical problem(opens in new tab)

While reading some classic poetry, I accidentally found Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s A Mathematical Problem: On a given finite line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. I have to admit, the ...

Inverted themes with light-dark()(opens in new tab)

We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...

#476: Common themes(opens in new tab)

Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/476

Ozempic dreams(opens in new tab)

It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be ...

Value numbering(opens in new tab)

Welcome back to compiler land. Today we’re going to talk about value numbering, which is like SSA, but more. Static single assignment (SSA) gives names to values: every expression has a name, and each name corresponds to exactly one expression. ...

2026.Q1 Review(opens in new tab)

TL;DR - In 2026.Q1 I participated in a 12-week programming retreat, published my 1,000th blog post, started building with Rust, solidified my agentic engineering workflows, shipped my first game, star...

Hello Again, World(opens in new tab)

On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the ...